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Pakistan Super League 2026 will begin on Thursday and will be played in front of empty stadium in only two venues – Lahore and Karachi.

Pakistan Super League 2026: The 11th season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2026 is set to get underway at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Thursday, just a couple of days before neighbours begin IPL 2026 on Saturday. The PSL 2026 like the last year will run parallel to the IPL 2026 with the final set to take place on May 3.

However, this PSL 2026 will be played under the shadow of the Israel-Iran War playing out in West Asia and as a result the entire T20 league will be played in 2 venues – Lahore and Karachi. Apart from this, the tournament will also be played in empty stadium at both these venues.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would have been hoping for a much more grander show with two new teams – Rawalpindi Pindiz and Hyderabad Kingsmen added to the league. But once again their plans have borne no fruit.

Like the 2025 edition, there has been steady outflow of cricketers from PSL to the IPL while some other foreign players have also pulled out of the tournament due to volatile security situation in the region.

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The PSL 2026 season will feature 44 games, which includes 40 Group Stage matches, three playoff matches and the final. The 8 teams are divided into groups of four where each side will play the three remaining teams twice and the four teams from the other group once.

In total, all the 8 franchises will be playing 10 games in the Group Stage. The top 4 teams will advance through to the Playoffs – similar to the Indian Premier Ledague. The top 2 teams play each other in a Playoff with the winner assured of a berth in the final. The 3rd and 4th-placed teams will play each other in Eliminator 1. The winner gets to play the loser from the Playoffs in Qualifier 2 to book a place in the final.

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PSL 2026 Squads

Islamabad United: Shadab Khan (c), Salman Irshad, Andries Gous, Devon Conway, Faheem Ashraf, Mehran Mumtaz, Max Bryant, Mark Chapman, Mir Hamza Sajjad, Sameer Minhas, Sameen Gul, Haider Ali, Richard Gleeson, Mohammad Hasnain, Dipendra Singh Airee, Mohammad Faiq, Salman Mirza, Nisar Ahmad, Shamar Joseph, Imad Wasim.

Peshawar Zalmi: Babar Azam (c), Sufiyan Muqeem, Abdul Samad, Ali Raza, Aaron Hardie, Aamir Jamal, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Haris, Khalid Usman, Abdul Subhan, James Vince, Michael Bracewell, Kusal Mendis, Iftikhar Ahmed, Nahid Rana, Mirza Tahir Baig, Kashif Ali, Shahnawaz Dahani, Farhan Yousaf, Mohammad Basit, Shoriful Islam.

Quetta Gladiators: Saud Shakeel (c), Abrar Ahmed, Hassan Nawaz, Usman Tariq, Shamyl Hussain, Rilee Rossouw, Jahandad Khan, Faisal Akram, Arafat Minhas, Mohammad Imran Randhawa, Shehzad Gul, Sam Harper, Bevon Jacobs, Ben McDermott, Tom Curran, Jahanzaib Sultan, Alzarri Joseph, Ahsan Ali, Bismillah Khan.

Lahore Qalandars: Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), Abdullah Shafique, Sikandar Raza, Mohammad Naeem, Mustafizur Rahman, Haris Rauf, Usama Mir, Fakhar Zaman, Ubaid Shah, Haseebullah Khan, Mohammad Farooq, Parvez Hossain Emon, Asif Ali, Hussain Talat, Tayyab Tahir, Rubin Hermann, Dunith Wellalage, Maaz Khan, Shahab Khan, Gudakesh Motie.

Multan Sultans: Ashton Turner (c), Steve Smith, Mohammad Nawaz, Sahibzada Farhan, Peter Siddle, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lachlan Shaw, Delano Potgieter, Josh Philippe, Momin Qamar, Mohammad Awais Zafar, Shan Masood, Mohammad Shehzad, Mohammad Ismail, Arshad Iqbal, Atizaz Habib Khan, Ahmed Daniyal, Salman Mirza, Saad Masood.

Karachi Kings: David Warner (c), Hassan Ali, Abbas Afridi, Khushdil Shah, Saad Baig, Moeen Ali, Azam Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Shahid Aziz, Mir Hamza, Adam Zampa, Mohammad Hamza Sohail, Aqib Ilyas, Khuzaima Bin Tanveer, Muhammad Waseem, Ihsanullah, Rizwan Ullah, Reeza Hendricks, Johnson Charles.

Rawalpindi Pindiz: Mohammad Rizwan (c), Naseem Shah, Daryl Mitchell, Sam Billings, Zaman Khan, Yasir Khan, Rishad Hossain, Mohammad Amir, Abdullah Fazal, Amad Butt, Laurie Evans, Dian Forrester, Asif Afridi, Kamran Ghulam, Fawad Ali, Mohammad Amir Khan.

Hyderabad Kingsmen: Marnus Labuschagne (c), Saim Ayub, Usman Khan, Glenn Maxwell, Akif Javed, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Ali, Kusal Perera, Irfan Khan Niazi, Hassan Khan, Shayan Jahangir, Hammad Azam, Asif Mehmood, Hunain Shah, Riley Meredith, Sharjeel Khan, Rizwan Mehmood, Saad Ali, Tayyab Arif, Ahmed Hussain.

How can I watch PSL 2026 LIVE on TV in India?

The PSL 2026 season will not be available LIVE on TV in India.

How can I watch PSL 2026 live streaming in India?

The PSL 2026 is available for live streaming in these regions of the world…

Australia & New Zealand: ESPN, USA & Canada: Willow, Willow Sports, Willow by Cricbuzz, United Kingdom: ARY Digital, ARY Plus, Tapmad, Bangladesh: T Sports, Tapmad, Sri Lanka: Dialog Television,Nepal: Tapmad, MENA (Middle East & North Africa): Cricbuzz, also available on Cricbuzz TV via ELIFE, Switch TV, and StarPlay, Rest of the World: Tapmad

It is not clear if PSL 2026 season will be available in India.

PSL 2026 schedule

Date	Teams	Venue	Time
March 26	Lahore Qalandars vs Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen	Lahore	Night
March 27	Quetta Gladiators vs Karachi Kings	Lahore	Night
March 28	Peshawar Zalmi vs Rawalpindiz	Lahore	Day
March 28	Multan Sultans vs Islamabad United	Lahore	Night
March 29	Quetta Gladiators vs Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen	Lahore	Day
March 29	Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings	Lahore	Night
March 31	Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi	Lahore	Night
April 1	Multan Sultans vs Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen	Lahore	Night
April 2	Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators	Lahore	Day
April 2	Rawalpindiz vs Karachi Kings	Lahore	Night
April 3	Multan Sultans vs Lahore Qalandars	Lahore	Night
April 4	Rawalpindiz vs Islamabad United	Lahore	Night
April 5	Multan Sultans vs Quetta Gladiators	Lahore	Night
April 6	Multan Sultans vs Rawalpindiz	Lahore	Night
April 8	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Peshawar Zalmi	Karachi	Night
April 9	Lahore Qalandars vs Islamabad United	Karachi	Day
April 9	Karachi Kings vs Peshawar Zalmi	Karachi	Night
April 10	Quetta Gladiators vs Rawalpindiz	Karachi	Night
April 11	Peshawar Zalmi vs Lahore Qalandars	Karachi	Day
April 11	Karachi Kings vs Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen	Karachi	Night
April 12	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Islamabad United	Karachi	Night
April 13	Peshawar Zalmi vs Multan Sultans	Karachi	Night
April 15	Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators	Karachi	Night
April 16	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Rawalpindiz	Karachi	Day
April 16	Karachi Kings vs Islamabad United	Karachi	Night
April 17	Lahore Qalandars vs Quetta Gladiators	Karachi	Night
April 18	Lahore Qalandars vs Rawalpindiz	Karachi	Night
April 19	Multan Sultans vs Karachi Kings	Karachi	Day
April 19	Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators	Karachi	Night
April 21	Lahore Qalandars vs Quetta Gladiators	Lahore	Day
April 21	Rawalpindiz vs Multan Sultans	Karachi	Night
April 22	Karachi Kings vs Peshawar Zalmi	Lahore	Day
April 22	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Multan Sultans	Karachi	Night
April 23	Rawalpindiz vs Islamabad United	Karachi	Day
April 23	Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings	Lahore	Night
April 24	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Islamabad United	Karachi	Night
April 25	Quetta Gladiators vs Karachi Kings	Lahore	Day
April 25	Lahore Qalandars vs Peshawar Zalmi	Lahore	Night
April 26	Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen vs Rawalpindiz	Karachi	Day
April 26	Islamabad United vs Multan Sultans	Karachi	Night
April 28	Qualifier	Karachi	Night
April 29	Eliminator 1	Lahore	Night
May 1	Eliminator 2	Lahore	Night
May 3	Final	Lahore	Night

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